Berlin Conference
Europe carves up Africa with no Africans present
European powers and the United States met in Berlin at Bismarck's invitation to set rules for colonising Africa. The conference, with no Africans present, accelerated the Scramble for Africa: by 1914 nearly the whole continent was divided among colonial powers.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 17 years earlier
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 15 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 7 years earlier
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 11 years later
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 21 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 8 years earlier
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 21 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 24 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 24 years later
Africa
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 5 years earlier
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 1 year later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 1 year later
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 2 years later
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 13 years later
Asia
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 8 years earlier
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 1 year earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 1 year later
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — 7 years later
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 10 years later
Americas
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — 17 years earlier
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — 15 years earlier
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 8 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 5 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 4 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 9 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 65)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 56)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 50)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 44)
- Thomas Edison (aged 37)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 31)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 28)
- Marie Curie (aged 17)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 15)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 14)